Lost in chaos

Celeste Scharrenberg Arcos is part of our community from the very start. During The Refugee Hackathon at the Dutch Design Week in 2015, we gathered people from different disciplines to create solutions for the refugee crisis that was gaining size day by day. Celeste also joined the hackathon and was afterwards asked by us to work on one of the ideas. In the hectic of fleeing, two lovers lose each other and children lose their parents. Lost in Chaos searches a solution for this.

The project was finally brought to a conceptual level and exposed at the Dutch Design Week 2016 with the name of ‘Lost in Chaos’. This result was possible thanks to the participation of two young refugees, Bilal and Omar, who shared their experiences and helped create the right solution together with other experts. The input of the real user is again proven as the most valuable to develop products and experiences which really meet the needs.

Message in a bottle

Water bottles as a means of communication. Very convenient, because water bottles are broadly spread in conflict areas and amongst refugees. The label can be changed into a bracelet with information. And a barcode or a QR-code on the label gives access to a digital platform where people can leave messages to each other.

Arrow-bracelet

Bracelets that find each other. The arrows on the bracelet point to each other. The length of the arrow indicates how far away the other is. If the distance becomes to big, the bracelet gives a signal.

Do you want to know more about Celeste, how she continued after the Lost in Chaos project and how she reflects on her role as designer for complex societal issues? Take a look at her blog.